For all the joy and overwhelming emotion that accompanies the birth of a child, there is one thing no parent looks forward to: the often-debilitating lack of sleep.
Yet sleeplessness hasn’t been an issue for Kings guard De’Aaron Fox since he and his wife, Recee, welcomed baby Reign to the family just over a month ago. “It’s weird—I’ve gotten good sleep ever since he’s come to us,” says Fox, who’s scored 30 points in 10 of his last 12 games.
Fox’s undisturbed slumber is far from the only surprise playing out in Sacramento this season. Many would have figured that the Kings—in the midst of the longest playoff drought in NBA history—would leave fans bleary-eyed, too, if not earlier in the campaign, then certainly by now, as the season plows into the homestretch.
